The beads I purchased are currently wandering around the USA courtesy of the post office, but have finally begun heading in my direction. In the meantime here are a couple of BCN discussions from the past about Paiwan beads. I was going to share them later, but here they are for now.

http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=iYz&aK=61607&iZz=61607&gV=0&kQz=&aO=1&iWz=0

http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=get&cG=9303636373&zu=3930363338&v=2&gV=0&p=